NFL Spin Zone’s Michael Johnson named one rookie per NFL division with the best chance at Defensive Rookie of the Year in a recent article. For the NFC South, Johnson named the pewter and red’s rookie linebacker Devin White, the fifth overall pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as the rookie with the best chance to win the award.
White was the Butkus Award winner and was named a consensus first-team All-American during his junior year at Louisiana State in 2018. He hopes for this to be just the beginning of the awards to stock in his trophy case; could Defensive Rookie of the year be the next award in his case?